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federal law signed into law by president clinton in 1996. it says if a person is legally married in a state, the federal government can't recognize those marriages. that's where you talked about federal benefits heterosexual couples get and same sex couples do not. the prop 8 thing is bigger. while potentially it's confined to the state of california only, the question it out there having given the right to gay marriage could the state then take it away through proposition 8 passed by a majority of the vote nurse 2008. having taken that case, the court could get to the bedrock issue. can any state refuse to let same sex couples get married under the federal constitution. it could potentially be narrow or very far. >> pete, as i understand it, let me ask you. this one of these things, maybe the driving one, is defense of marriage act was about paying the estate act. where one of the two people said she didn't have to pay the estate tax because a married couple wouldn't have to. >> reporter: this is a case from new york. a woman named edie win
federal law signed into law by president clinton in 1996. it says if a person is legally married in a state, the federal government can't recognize those marriages. that's where you talked about federal benefits heterosexual couples get and same sex couples do not. the prop 8 thing is bigger. while potentially it's confined to the state of california only, the question it out there having given the right to gay marriage could the state then take it away through proposition 8 passed by a...
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want to ask you, one of the parts of the red line statement by president obama and secretary of state clinton, that if there was movement of any chemical weapons of mass destruction, movement -- now, as i listen to what you're saying, there hasn't been movement. it looks like they're getting ready where they are, but they haven't moved yet, so maybe they haven't violated the red line exactly. >> that's right, larry. they've got everything in place to do that. but what are the possibilities here? u.s. military officials say it would be very difficult to target certain areas. there are possibilities if they're going to load them on the planes. they could use cruise missiles to attack airstrips, for example. they can't blow up the weapons sites themselves, otherwise then the deadly gases could be spread among the public and kill thousands. the only other option according to some people that i've been talking to over the past couple of days is possibly take those cruise missiles and aim them not only at the airport strips, but at regime targets. even perhaps president assad himself. but so far, w
want to ask you, one of the parts of the red line statement by president obama and secretary of state clinton, that if there was movement of any chemical weapons of mass destruction, movement -- now, as i listen to what you're saying, there hasn't been movement. it looks like they're getting ready where they are, but they haven't moved yet, so maybe they haven't violated the red line exactly. >> that's right, larry. they've got everything in place to do that. but what are the...
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. >>> at the end, we have breaking news, secretary of state hillary clinton says she quote takes responsibility for the attack on the benghazi embassy on september 11th. this comes in an interview with cnn. the secretary is in lima, peru, told cnn the white house is quote not at fault for the attack that killed ambassador chris stephens and three others. cnbc.com will have coverage throughout the evening. of course, we will have much more about this on squawkbox tomorrow. this benghazi business is one of the biggest factors in the election right now according to polling data, the administration's story, in my humble opinion, simply does not hang together. if the state department takes responsibility for that, i'm still not sure what that means. who can kokted the susan rice story? the u.n. ambassador, who went on five news stories and contrary to facts, said to everybody, it was a youtube video and a spontaneous demonstration? we know that was not true. the question is who put it into susan rice's head and who ordered her to go out and make that story, which is without any creds whatsoever? tha
. >>> at the end, we have breaking news, secretary of state hillary clinton says she quote takes responsibility for the attack on the benghazi embassy on september 11th. this comes in an interview with cnn. the secretary is in lima, peru, told cnn the white house is quote not at fault for the attack that killed ambassador chris stephens and three others. cnbc.com will have coverage throughout the evening. of course, we will have much more about this on squawkbox tomorrow. this benghazi...
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if she had that information, then hillary clinton had that information, and if hillary clinton had that information, richard williamson, president obama had that information, and that's why americans are burned up. >> well, we know that the day after the tragic events in benghazi that a senior state department official briefed some people on capitol hill, referred to it as a terrorist attack so clearly the administration, the gang that can't shoot straight, can't get its stories straight, and this lack of transparency, this lack of candor has two terrible aspects. one, it is disrespectful to the four brave americans who had served our country well, who perished in this terrorist attack, and, two, it's a failed effort to justify a war on terror through target the killings that president obama wants to claim has been successful when clearly it hasn't. >> but here's the thing. >> the al qaeda -- >> this is -- richard, i've got to get this in, rich. look, go back in time a few weeks. >> sure. >> there was a ceremony at the dover air force base, okay? a ceremony at the dover air force base.
if she had that information, then hillary clinton had that information, and if hillary clinton had that information, richard williamson, president obama had that information, and that's why americans are burned up. >> well, we know that the day after the tragic events in benghazi that a senior state department official briefed some people on capitol hill, referred to it as a terrorist attack so clearly the administration, the gang that can't shoot straight, can't get its stories straight,...
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obama or any american president, democrat or republican, could be bill clinton or whoever, i would want to have solidarity with netanyahu, right now, with ahmadinejad here in the driver's seat making these crazy speeches. i would want to show solidarity, miss silverberg. >> absolutely. >> it's just not a question of showing and sending signals, we've got to actually do something. >> all right. we've got to do something. this thing is just drifting in the wrong direction. ambassador kristen silverberg, thank you very, very much. we appreciate t.jed babin, appreciate. coming up on "cud low," money managers mulling whether or not to take a time-out as stocks close in on record highs. but wait for my next guest to say the market is ready to rally even more. >>> later on, the battle for the middle class. romney finally figures it out. tax cuts, more take-home pay, more jobs. who could ask for anything else, and don't forget, as always, free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. that includes tax cuts and more take-home pay. i'm larry kudlow. we'll be right back. >>> stocks were o
obama or any american president, democrat or republican, could be bill clinton or whoever, i would want to have solidarity with netanyahu, right now, with ahmadinejad here in the driver's seat making these crazy speeches. i would want to show solidarity, miss silverberg. >> absolutely. >> it's just not a question of showing and sending signals, we've got to actually do something. >> all right. we've got to do something. this thing is just drifting in the wrong direction....